Klarinet Archive - Posting 000716.txt from 2003/04

From: Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] NOT history of clarinet
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 00:40:52 -0400

I think that a "balance" is in order. I don't propose that ALL comments
need be serious and I qualified my thoughts when I said, "There is
always room for some off topic comments..." After all, we are our own
little community and we do care for each other. It is very nice to have
a place to go and people to go to whom you know with show some empathy.

On Friday, April 18, 2003, at 09:51 AM, Bruce McGarvey wrote:

> <snip>
>> ...inane banter and childish twaddle ...idiotic things like floor
> hamsters!
> <snip>
>
> I can't, of course, speak for anyone else, but when this list becomes
> full
> of nothing but "serious" things, I'll unsubscribe.
>
> Not all of us want to talk, eat, breathe, and think about THE CLARINET
> all
> the time. Not all of us consider THE CLARINET the most important thing
> in
> our lives.
>
> Maybe there are a few here who are so obsessed with the instrument that
> "idiotic things," "childish twaddle," and "inane banter," take precious
> seconds away from their practice and serious pursuit clarinet
> scholarship
> and the lofty truths of clarinet playing. But I, for one, consider the
> clarinet an enhancement to my life, not the reason for it, and I enjoy
> a
> little banter here.
>
> I hope, as you mature and you gain a more worldly perspective, you
> will cut
> the less-intense people here a bit more slack...and learn to be less
> insulting, too.
>
> Bruce McGarvey

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